Excessive Heat, Marathon
- When
- February 25, 9:00 AM CST to February 29, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Marathon forecast zone
- Reported by
- OFFICIAL NWS OBS.
- Coordinates
- 44.898, -89.759 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Excessive Heat in Wisconsin, February 25 to 29, 2000
New record high temperatures were set at Wausau (Marathon county) each of the last four days of the month. High temperatures were 59 degrees on the 26th and 29th, 48 degrees on the 27th and 49 degrees on the 28th.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS GRB wrote it up.
New record high temperatures were set at Wausau (Marathon county) each of the last four days of the month. High temperatures were 59 degrees on the 26th and 29th, 48 degrees on the 27th and 49 degrees on the 28th. Highs of 59 degrees on the 26th and 29th were the warmest readings ever recorded in Wausau during the month of February.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 excessive heat. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Excessive Heat
- Heat at or above the local excessive heat warning criteria, or heat that caused deaths.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, February 25 to 26, 2000
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, February 25 to 26, 2000
- Tornado in Missouri, February 25, 2000
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, February 25, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, February 25, 2000
- High Wind in Wyoming, February 25 to 27, 2000
- Tornado in Missouri, February 25, 2000
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, February 25 to 26, 2000
- Excessive Heat in West Virginia, February 25, 2000
- Winter Storm in North Dakota, February 25, 2000
- Tornado in Missouri, February 25, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, February 25, 2000
More
Every storm in Wisconsin in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Wisconsin, February 2000
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5133093.